Electrical Engineering Technical Director

Solutech LLC • Woodinville, WA

2h • $150,000 - $175,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Electrical Engineering Technical Director is the senior technical leader for the company's electronics repair and engineering function. This role is both a hands-on technical authority and a people leader: serving as the primary technical voice with customers, shaping the engineering roadmap with failure-mode data, building out repair capabilities as the business takes on new device modalities, and developing the technician team's root-cause troubleshooting skills.

Requirements

• 10+ years of electrical engineering experience with complex electronic systems and instrumentation
• Proven experience leading electronics repair teams
• Hands-on bench technician skills, with the ability to stay active in day-to-day repair work
• Deep troubleshooting ability at the board and component level
• Able to work from incomplete or limited documentation
• Experience checking completed repairs against original design specifications
• Strong communication skills, able to work well with production floor staff
• Creditable and confident presenting to a customer’s senior technical staff

Nice To Haves

• Experience with regulated or safety-critical hardware and formal test documentation.
• BSEE or equivalent, with demonstrated experience in analog, power, and mixed-signal circuit design or repair.
• Skilled in SMT and through-hole rework, BGA reballing, and precision soldering.
• Deeply familiar with common failure modes and repair tactics for imaging technology, including reverse engineering from limited or no OEM documentation.
• Track record building and managing an electronics repair or production team — hiring, mentoring, and holding a bench to a quality standard.
• Prior director- or manager-level ownership of repair, manufacturing, or service engineering operation, including throughput and quality metrics.

Responsibilities

• Be the senior technical voice with customers. Lead technical reviews, escalations, and executive conversations; present findings and remediation plans with the polish expected of a director and represent the company's engineering credibility on every call.
• Shape the engineering roadmap. Bring failure-mode data into R&D decisions, with a strong voice in which device classes and board families we reverse-engineer next and how we sequence them.
• Own the buildout of repair capabilities for new modalities. Take a new modality from evaluation to production readiness — failure-mode characterization, parts and tooling sourcing, test and validation procedures, technician training, and the documentation the bench needs to run at volume.
• Coach the team on root-cause failure analysis and recommend where skills and capacity need to grow.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Associate degree